[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2645. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle I of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 896. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SERVICE ACQUISITION REFORM.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Failure to expeditiously implement the improvements 
     required by section 2329 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     an opportunity cost to buying back the readiness and 
     modernizing the Department of Defense's capabilities.
       (2) Every unaccountable expenditure of funds has the 
     potential for waste and duplication of effort.
       (3) The Government Accountability Office determined in a 
     February 20016 report that the Department of Defense's 
     contract services budget justifications ``provide limited 
     visibility to Congress on planned spending, and the primary 
     exhibit for contracted services does not meet statutory 
     reporting requirements''.
       (4) Financial auditability requires assurance that funds 
     are obligated and expended in the proper amounts during the 
     appropriate time periods consistent with their intended 
     purposes.
       (5) The Department's most recent contractor inventories 
     submitted to Congress on February 25, 2018, included 
     ``approximately 25 percent, or just under $42 billion, of the 
     department's total $160 billion-plus spend for contracted 
     services''.
       (6) The Department committed on April 16, 2018, to provide 
     Future Year Defense Program level detail to support the 
     budget exhibit required by section 2329 and committed to 
     provide bi-annual briefings on its progress in implementing 
     this requirement.
       (7) The Office of the Chief Management Officer Reform teams 
     have been coordinating efforts to meet the requirement for 
     Future Year Defense Program detail for contract services.
       (8) The Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller uses object 
     classes from the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-
     11, Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget 
     (July 2017) displayed in budget justifications exhibits 
     arranged by appropriation.
       (9) The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
     Sustainment uses Services Portfolio Groups constructed from 
     Product Services Codes used in the Federal Procurement Data 
     System-Next Generation based on the definition of services 
     contracts in part 37 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
       (10) The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
     Readiness has issued policies for determining the appropriate 
     mix between the Department of Defense civilian workforce and 
     contract services and how to evaluate their scope based on 
     functions that have been or should be performed by the 
     military and the civilian Federal government workforce in 
     Department of Defense Instruction 1100.22, Policy and 
     Procedures for Determining Workforce Mix.
       (11) The Director of Cost and Program Evaluation has issued 
     policies for comparing the costs of the Department of Defense 
     civilian workforce and contract services in Department of 
     Defense Instruction 7041.04, Estimating and Comparing the 
     Full Costs of Civilian and Active Duty Military Manpower and 
     Contract Support.
       (12) Full accountability for the approximately 
     $160,000,000,000 spent annually on contract services is 
     required for good stewardship on behalf of the taxpayer 
     irrespective of whether these funds are expended through 
     prime or subcontract arrangements and irrespective of the 
     method of procurement used, whether as a commercial item or 
     service or any other means.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--Congress--
       (1) supports full implementation of Future Year Defense 
     Program detail visibility of spending on contract services to 
     accompany the budget exhibit required by section 2329 of 
     title 10, United States Code; and
       (2) supports Department of Defense efforts to coordinate 
     consistent and broad definitions of services contracts to 
     ensure full accountability for every dollar obligated and 
     expended with the full expectation that any future 
     clarifications of services contract definitions will not 
     reduce the scope of coverage of the $160,000,000,000 
     currently spent on contract services.
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